Kihei Community Association | Maui, Hawaii

Our first 2012 meeting at 6:30 PM Tuesday at the Charter School features DPW director David Goode addresing our concerns about roads, such as where’s that Collector Road, and how will S. Kihei be improved, what’s up with the bus stops?- flood mitigation, and safe pedestrain and bicycle passage around town. So along with your non-perishable food [...]

As an unfortunant incident left a man down in the middle of Pi’ikea at S Kihei Rd shortly before 10 AM Saturday 1/7/12. Within minutes three MPD cars were on the scene, quicly followed by MFD truck from the south and an ambulance from the north.

Updates: While PETCO announced they will no longer sell Yellow Tangs at the Maui store, they refused to take other actions,  like no sale of wild caught reef fish, so the protestors returned again on January 4 for a couple of hours, and announced yet another rally on Saturday1/14/12 at 11 AM  in this same [...]

After their very successful flood forum just before Thanksgiving, which KCA cosponsered, the Clean Water Committee is now seeking a pilot project as a way to determine what can help mitigate the seasonal flooding in Kihei. One of the considerations for the project concerns the availablity of recycled (R-1) water for irrigation of any plantings. [...]

UPDATE:Full County Council  hearing on this proposed ban on 1/20/12  resulted in unamimous approval. The second and final reading is expected soon. Maui County Council is deliberating a complete ban on alcohol consumption at both Kalama and adjoing Cove Parks.  KCA has not taken a position on this matter, but is interested in hearing from the membership to [...]

UPDATE: 1/15/12. The dead tree has been replaced by the Parks Dept. with a   a Noni-Indian Mulberry, which with proper care could grow to twenty feet from the several inches it is now. It sits among the original two Milos that seem to be growing well. The KCA apprciates the Administraiton’s rectification of this situation. Mahalo. UPDATE 12/26/11 [...]

The Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Kihei High School has been released. Follow this link  (note – it is a large .pdf file, so it may take a few minutes to load) http://oeqc.doh.hawaii.gov/Shared%20Documents/EA_and_EIS_Online_Library/Maui/2010s/2011-12-23-DEIS-Kihei-High-School.pdf

  The dirt lot that has served as an “overflow” parking lot for Kam III on mauka side of S. Kihei Road at Keonekai St is now a pay-per-use facility. This lot was generally considered to be County property by many of us, including our mayor; thus the community outrage when the signage went up [...]

A ever swelling crowd reached over 100 at the Kamali’i School on the evening of Dec 12, 2011, to first hear what Maui Electric Company (MECO) was now proposing for the additional transmission lines extending from Maalaea power station to So. Kihei, then speak up and tell MECO what the residents want for their community. KCA was [...]

When the County Council’s Planning Committee,  chaired by Kihei’s own Don Couch, announced they would be discussing, “Walkable & Livable Communities,” as well as “Repetitive loss of Properties; Floodplain Management Plan,” at their afternoon meeting on December 12, we felt Kihei was very interested, and sent a representative to address  & listen to the committee. [...]